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Author | : Oregon State Bar. Committee on Judicial Administration |
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Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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Author | : Ohio. Constitutional Revision Commission |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
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Author | : James Sundquist |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780815714309 |
For years the public has become increasingly disillusioned and cynical about its governmental institutions. In the face of alarming problems-most notably the $400 billion budget deficit-the government seems deadlocked, reduced to partisan posturing and bickering, with the president and Congress blaming each other for failure. And neither party can be held accountable. The public tendency is to blame individual leaders- or politicians as a class-but an insistent and growing number of experienced statesmen and political scientists believe that much of the difficulty can be traced to the governmental structure itself, designed in the eighteenth century and essentially unchanged since then. Is that inherited constitutional system adequate to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, or has the time come for fundamental change? Should we adopt an electoral system that encourages unified control of the presidency, the Senate and the House? Lengthen terms of office? Limit congressional terms? Abolish or modify the electoral college? Introduce a mechanism for calling special elections? Permit legislators to hold executive offices? Redistribute the balance of powers within the governmental system? In this revised edition of his highly acclaimed 1986 volume, James Sundquist reviews the origins and rationale of the constitutional structure and the current debate about whether reform is needed, then raises practical questions about what changes might work best if a consensus should emerge that the national government is too prone to stalemate to meet its responsibilities. Analyzing the main proposals advanced to adapt the Constitution to current conditions, he attempts to separate the workable ideas from the unworkable, the effective from the ineffective, the possibly feasible from the wholly infeasible, and finally arrives at a set of recommendations of his own.
Author | : Larry J. Sabato |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802777562 |
"The reader can't help but hold out hope that maybe someday, some of these sweeping changes could actually bring the nation's government out of its intellectual quagmire...his lively, conversational tone and compelling examples make the reader a more than willing student for this updated civics lesson." --The Hill The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for politics at the University of Virginia. A More Perfect Constitution presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political minds of our time to reinvigorate our Constitution and American governance at a time when such change is urgently needed, given the growing dysfunction and unfairness of our political system . Combining idealism and pragmatism, and with full respect for the original document, Larry Sabato's thought-provoking ideas range from the length of the president's term in office and the number and terms of Supreme Court justices to the vagaries of the antiquated Electoral College, and a compelling call for universal national service-all laced through with the history behind each proposal and the potential impact on the lives of ordinary people. Aware that such changes won't happen easily, but that the original Framers fully expected the Constitution to be regularly revised, Sabato urges us to engage in the debate and discussion his ideas will surely engender. During an election year, no book is more relevant or significant than this.
Author | : John Pirie Keith |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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Author | : Kansas. Citizens' Committee on Constitutional Revision |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Constitutional amendments |
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Author | : Sanford Levinson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1995-01-24 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1400821630 |
An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well. The contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Mark E. Brandon, David R. Dow, Stephen M. Griffin, Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, Sanford Levinson, Donald Lutz, Walter Murphy, Frederick Schauer, John R. Vile, and Noam J. Zohar.
Author | : Tip H. Allen |
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Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Constitution law |
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Author | : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Government |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Constitutional amendments |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
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